{"id":932,"date":"2023-11-25T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basisaudio.com\/?page_id=932"},"modified":"2023-12-07T03:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T03:33:23","slug":"pstt-loudspeaker-cable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.basisaudio.com\/turntables\/pstt-loudspeaker-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"PSTT Loudspeaker Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"932\" class=\"elementor elementor-932\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad5eceb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ad5eceb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef4edd0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ef4edd0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Basis Perfect Signal Transmission Technology Loudspeaker Cable<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fbe5b4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0fbe5b4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6de8164 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6de8164\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Basis PSTT Loudspeaker Cable<\/strong> <strong>redefines the upper limits of loudspeaker cable performance<\/strong>.\u00a0 Never has a speaker cable performed at state of the art levels in so many areas: bass definition, bass impact, midrange clarity, midrange naturalness, transparency, high frequency extension, high frequency \u201csweetness\u201d, overall \u201cmicrodynamics\u201d, overall dynamics, image width, image depth, image stability, and overall focus.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"text-align-center\">When you audition Basis PSTT Loudspeaker Cable you will hear your system perform at new, <strong>far increased levels of clarity <em>AND<\/em>musicality<\/strong> (many times mutually exclusive attributes of a given cable).\u00a0 In the past, particular cable brands were known for one or two overall, pervasive sonic characteristics.\u00a0 Brand \u201cA\u201d might be known as the very detailed, but somewhat fatiguing cable.\u00a0 Brand \u201cB\u201d might be known as natural, but \u201cclosed- in\u201d sounding.\u00a0 Basis cables have forever \u201craised the bar\u201d of overall cable performance possibilities.\u00a0 Extreme detail, fabulous bass, along with total effortlessness and naturalness are now available, for the first time, in the same cable.<\/p><p class=\"text-align-center\">Please read below to understand how only a cable designed with proper engineering, resulting in perfect impedance stability, can perform at the level of Basis cable.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abbf67d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"abbf67d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">PURE PHYSICS AND PROVEN ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67341b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"67341b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-con{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));--align-self:var(--container-widget-align-self,initial);--flex-shrink:0}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container{height:100%;width:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty{position:relative;min-height:22px;min-width:22px}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty .elementor-widget-empty-icon,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty .elementor-widget-empty-icon{position:absolute;top:0;bottom:0;left:0;right:0;margin:auto;padding:0;width:22px;height:22px}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4580ca4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4580ca4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-align-center\">As with all design projects, we at Basis begin with research in the pure physics of the product involved. Those familiar with Basis will notice that this approach, using a \u201cclean slate\u201d with no predetermined design biases, has been the Basis approach with all products from the original Debut through the revolutionary Vector tonearm and the amazing Work of Art turntable.<\/p><p class=\"text-align-center\">From initial design through the final product the <strong>fundamentals of physics and electromagnetic theory<\/strong> have guided us toward the goal of offering the most truthful audio cables available. No \u201caudio industry dogma\u201d, theory, or standard practice regarding materials or configuration was allowed to intrude upon our research and the development of the cables.\u00a0 Available audio cables were only used to test our developing theories regarding the relationship between measured electrical characteristics and sonic performance in audio cables.\u00a0 Numerous examples of the best available cables and our own prototypes were measured for all electrical characteristics, then tested in state of the art stereo systems.\u00a0 Basis developed a database of electrical properties and sonic characteristics of cables that allows us to understand the connection between the measured parameters of any particular cable and its sound.\u00a0 No cable can be exactly predicted by measurements.\u00a0 There is no substitute for listening, and the Basis Cables are the result of many hundreds of hours of listening.\u00a0 However, a full understanding of the physics involved and an increasing ability to correlate sonic performance with measurable criteria are necessary to expand the envelope of cable performance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9a7bf8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d9a7bf8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A COMPLETE DESIGN<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b247406 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b247406\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-align-center\">Most audio cables have been designed along one or two favorite features of the designer.\u00a0 In the case of one cable this may be the winding of the conductors into a particular pattern.\u00a0 Another cable\u2019s \u201cfeature design aspect\u201d may be its ratio of wire size.\u00a0 Yet another cable may claim the use of \u201cair tube\u201d technology as its greatest feature.\u00a0 Ironically, many of these claimed \u201cadvantages\u201d actually result in sonic <em>disadvantages<\/em>.\u00a0 Many \u201cair tube\u201d designs, for instance, result in unstable geometry, where the conductors float in the air tubes, and give unstable electrical characteristics and unpredictable performance.\u00a0 We at Basis have measured 30% changes in electrical characteristics of such cables by simply changing the bend of the cable while measuring.<\/p><p class=\"text-align-center\">Many audio cable companies operate under the naive, erroneous assumption that capacitance, inductance, or both are \u201cbad\u201d and should be driven to zero if possible.\u00a0 Cables designed to be extremely low in either inductance or capacitance are typically of inappropriate impedance and grossly deviate from an effective transmission line.\u00a0 Such cables perform very differently with different types of equipment.\u00a0 As an example, most audiophiles are familiar with the flat, ribbon cables made by some companies.\u00a0 Flat cables typically result in unusual values of capacitance and impedance, which is why some such cables are actually unstable with particular electronics, even requiring discrete loading components to achieve stability.\u00a0 Basis cables, reflecting their \u201cdistortionless transmission line\u201d design, are totally stable with all loads.<\/p><p class=\"text-align-center\">Fixating on one design aspect, as in the above examples, may make for \u201ccatchy\u201d marketing, but invariably results in incomplete cable designs.<\/p><p class=\"text-align-center\">We at Basis understand that all aspects of an audio cable are critical.\u00a0 A <strong>complete design<\/strong> must account for many factors and not overlook any.\u00a0 Basis specifies such extreme requirements of materials and processes, all of which are necessary to achieve our performance and stability goals, that we have found only two high-tech\/military cable specialist manufacturers in the USA who are capable of manufacturing Basis Signal Cables.<\/p><p><strong>Basis PSTT Loudspeaker Cable<\/strong> effectively addresses all pertinent material and electrical properties, including:<\/p><p><strong>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Conductor material:<\/strong> The highest purity proprietary copper alloy is used throughout all cables.<\/p><p><strong>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Dielectric material:<\/strong> The most pure form of the world\u2019s finest dielectric is used, un-dyed for all primary and secondary insulation needs as well as cable cores.<\/p><p><strong>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Skin Effect design:<\/strong> Using Basis \u201c<strong>Annular Ring Conductor Geometry<\/strong>\u201d, skin-effect concerns are eliminated, even at multiples of the highest audio frequencies, producing superior imaging, impact, reverberation, and tonality.<\/p><p><strong>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Impedance matching: <\/strong>Through innovative use of materials and geometry Basis has succeeded in bringing the impedance to unprecedented proximity of the typical loudspeaker load, preventing distortion producing and power compromising reflections at the loudspeaker terminals.\u00a0 Speakers perform to their ultimate capability with Basis speaker cables.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>High power handling ability: <\/strong>Gauge size is important in high current applications.\u00a0 The Basis Speaker Cable is a full 7 gauge wire yet has the same exemplary skin-effect characteristics of the Basis 16 gauge annular ring conductor internal component wire.\u00a0 Basis has succeeded in producing a large gauge cable with the advantages of large cables while retaining the superior imagine characteristics of smaller cables whose strength is immunity from audible skin effects.<\/p><p><strong>6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>\u201cDistortionless Transmission Line\u201d<\/strong> <strong>performance:<\/strong> Electrical characteristics are balanced in the single, unique condition to meet \u201cdistortionless transmission line\u201d conditions.\u00a0 This balance of conditions, <strong>dictated by proven physics<\/strong>, is the <strong>only avenue to attain constant phase<\/strong> across a wide frequency range.<\/p><p>A constant perfect phase relationship between all frequencies produces results not attainable if this condition is not met.\u00a0 Foremost in the sound of a \u201cdistortionless transmission line\u201d may be a \u201cnatural coherence\u201d that can be \u201cfelt\u201d on an instinctive level by the listener.\u00a0 The individual sonic properties that many audiophiles analyze, such as attack, decay, tonality, and soundfield echoes so convincingly \u201cplay off of each other\u201d and combine as to make analytical listening almost superfluous.\u00a0 So involving is the music that analytical listening is actually much more difficult to perform in a system with Basis signal cables from source through speakers.\u00a0 To explain just how natural this effect of correct phase is please contemplate this analogy.\u00a0 Imagine sitting in the middle of a totally dark room with a person speaking behind and to the left of you.\u00a0 In a few moments you would be able to locate this person.\u00a0 Your mind automatically would analyze the slight difference in the arrival of the sound between your left and right ears.\u00a0 Your mind would analyze the echoes to further locate the speaker as well as to determine the size of the room.\u00a0 None of this process is conscious or subject to logical analysis.\u00a0 In a similar manner, when you first listen to Basis signal cables you will perceive a \u201crightness\u201d which will transcend analysis\u2026\u2026<strong>you will not <em>need<\/em> to analyze the sound.\u00a0 <\/strong>However, when you force yourself to analyze the sound you will find that the \u201cmental checklist\u201d you have learned to make while evaluating audio equipment, with factors such as stage width, stage depth, natural decay, attack, quality of soundfield echoes, resolution, transparency, will be fully satisfied.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38c01b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"38c01b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">WIDE SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2480169 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2480169\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-align-center\">The favorable impedance of the Basis Speaker Cable (see item 4, above) combined with distortionless transmission line characteristics (see item 6, above) mean a cable which has neutral sonic characteristics and perfect phase performance when used with a wide variety of components.\u00a0 The <strong>Basis Speaker Cables are as \u201cat home\u201d with OTL (output transformerless tube amplifiers) as high-powered solid-state amplifiers<\/strong>.\u00a0 Whether you use single-ended transformer-coupled tube amplifiers, push-pull tube amplifiers, solid-state amplifiers, horn-loaded, cone, or electrostatic loudspeakers you will receive the same performance from your Basis Speaker Cables.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca4a760 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